The AK Party-CHP coalition dialogues ended in failure and below is the dialogue that went on between Prime Minister Davutoğlu and Kılıçdaroğlu.

Davutoğlu: “We might form a short-term reform government indexed on an election. Moreover, reforms like lowering the election threshold and the system of transporting citizens to the polling centers from rural areas may be implemented before going to an election.

Kılıçdaroğlu: We believe all these problems will only be solved with a 4-year term high profile government being formed”

In response, the Prime Minister says, “Well, we couldn't form a coalition, but these dialogues were very beneficial; thus, we should continue dialoguing. These dialogues should continue before and during the elections.”

Both leaders stand up, thank each other and end the meeting.

Leaving the “short-term election government” disputes aside, I'd like to draw attention to how the two leaders parted in a polite manner at a time, which Bülent Arınç describes, as “taut as a tambourine string.”

If only the MHP leader Bahçeli, before meeting with Prime Minister Davutoğlu, had delivered a message that eased the public tension, instead of the very heavy statements he made.

Before getting into the Davutoğlu-Bahçeli meeting, I would like to reflect the backstages of the AK Party and the MHP.

The MHP upholds its four predetermined conditions before sitting at the table.

1- The commonwealth is loyal to its country, people and indivisible unity, as stated in the first four articles of the constitution .

2- To end the Reconciliation Process. The MHP perceives the Reconciliation Process as a “Betrayal process”. Before the first meeting on July 14, Bahçeli said, “The PKK terror organization should abolish itself. The organization's militants should surrender to security forces together with their weapons, and these weapons should be recorded into the state inventory records.” The Reconciliation Process was put on hold after an explosion in Suruç and the deaths of two police officers on July 20. Intense military operations on the PKK started. The MHP leader Bahçeli wants the Reconciliation Process to be ended and expects this to be expressed with justified reasons. Bahçeli criticized Erdoğan's words, “Hereupon, the Reconciliation Process has been put away in the refrigerator”, by saying, “Refrigerating the Process means to prevent it from spoiling.”

3- MHP wants the 17-25 December folders to be opened, and the four ministers to be put on trial in the Supreme Court.

4- The President's status: Initially saying, “Erdoğan should abandon the Presidential Palace and go back into the Çankaya bell glass,” Bahçeli went further ahead before meeting with Prime Minister Davutoğlu and said, “It is our natural and just right to expect Mr. Davutoğlu to turn his back on the palace and act with an independent manner.”

Bahçeli is playing some kind of game.

He is trying to break the bond between AK Party and Erdoğan, and pit Davutoğlu against Erdoğan.

Such that, although CHP conducted a harsher campaign against AK Party after the December 17-25 folders, CHP put all aside in order to conduct constructive dialogues during the coalition talks.

Bahçeli could not show the political courtesy Kılıçdaroğlu did.

He used a deriding language directed at the relationship between the President and Prime Minister before meeting the PM.

Prime Minister Davutoğlu replied, “No one can claim that there is a tutelage relationship between the President and me.” President Erdoğan said, “I will not take Bahçeli's words into consideration.”

When he himself was a coalition partner he acted meticulous, as he did not smoke in the presence of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit or cross his legs while seated, despite Ecevit's wife Rahşan Ecevit calling the idealists “blood shedders.”

Previously saying, “ Give Bilal, take power”, this time the MHP leader is gambling on Erdoğan himself.

Upon the President saying, “Turkey's system of government has changed. I have effective power”, Bahçeli replied in an inadmissible manner as he said, “ Locally produced Hitler, Stalin, Qaddafi” referring to the President. How can you liken the elected President of the Turkish Republic to a tyrant dictator?

You can criticize the President's statements, yet likening him to Hitler, Stalin and Qaddafi is out of line. I do not think the decision made to meet MHP was easy to make, upon such statements.

It should be known that, AK Party would not exchange one thousand governments for Erdoğan.

Davutoğlu will not sacrifice Erdoğan for a thousand Prime Minister positions.

Despite all of this, Davutoğlu will meet Bahçeli at 2 p.m. today. Bahçeli conducted extensive research upon the MHP grassroots criticizing Bahçeli saying, “Doesn't the MHP have plans to come to power? Why don't we accept AK Parties coalition proposal?” To end this perception he will offer the AK Party coalition partnership. This would have to be a coalition with unacceptable conditions put together. Yet, he wants to end this perception.

MHP is also against a snap election.

On the night of June 7, Bahçeli threw his hat into the ring and said that he was ready to go to a snap election; he declared again on June 20, that they were ready to go to the elections again on November 15. Now, “Repeating the elections is not a vaccine; instead, in such a state, it is poison” says Bahçeli.

Bahçeli is against the snap elections because of two reasons.

1- The terror environment

2- In the case of not being able to ensure security for ballot boxes, the number of HDP representatives will increase.

Pushing aside all formulas with the HDP in them and clogging all the roads that go to forming a government since June 7, isn't Bahçeli responsible if President Erdoğan constitutionally decides on a snap election, and then, as a result, HDP takes part in the government?

The MHP has already prepared itself an answer for this particular criticism. HDP being part of the cabinet is Erdoğan's problem, not the MHP's.

Prime Minister Davutoğlu does not want to go to the elections without draining the MHP option. Besides, it needs MHP if a snap election decision was to be made in the parliament or to form a minority government. AK Party is trapped in terms of these two points.

Deciding on a snap election

Support for a minority government

These actually aren't things AK Party couldn't do on its own. MHP not entering the parliament is seen as the magical formula during the MHP vote of confidence. But, if MHP insists on entering the parliament, what will happen?

The Prime Minister's status before his meeting with Bahçeli:

1- Making a decision for a snap election in parliament and support for a minority government

2 - If MHP comes back with a coalition proposal, then AK Party will be open to negotiate.

Politics is actually trapped. Will the leaders untangle the knot, or will it all be left for Erdoğan to handle?